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Who is a Storygardener
A Storygardener is a non specialized profession which empowers to develop specialization in new areas of activity. In essence he is a map-maker, a storyteller and a listener, a photographer, an artist, a truffle-dog of tales, a re-storier of place; he is conversant with the artofzed (see art and dreadofzed), he operates as a midwife in extracting story and SONG out of PLACE; he is a naturalist and a mediator.
Some identifying features of a storygardener: one who cannot exaclty describe what he does in life; one who has difficulty with job descriptions. (But then Leonardo, Rudolph Steiner, John Ruskin also had problems with job descriptions.) One who is weakened at the mere hint of extreme specialization.
Not yet a well known profession but one which an increasing de-facto following in this age of high-specialization. Most of the people on this website are storygardener types.
In coming months we shall be advertising a School for Storygardenerz.
Today, if your if your talent lies in history, languages or the humanities, you might go through school and university and then discover nobody waiting for you at the other end.
One possible reply to the complaint nobody wants me is
they do, if you do.
You create a job and then you give it to yourself. You give yourself an expertise, nobody else has, and then you become good at advertising it.
Storygardener, as a profession, pitches you in somewhere between: writer, storyteller-speaker, artist, photographer, journalist, interior decorator, landscape gardener, mediator, business consultant, and operator in leisure and tourism, the biggest industry in the world (see cultural tourism to ECO tourism).
Too general ? Ask Benjamin Franklin or Aristotle....